Family:

Pittosporaceae

Location:

Gardens

Growth habit:

Shrub

Plant size:

up to 6 m

Flower colour:

white, later yellowish

Flowering time

April - May

Leaf characteristics:

alternate, dark green, smooth, leathery, elongated to oval, up to over 10cm long

Flower characteristics:

radial, 2 - 3 cm wide, in umbels at the ends of the branches

Fruits:

Seeds in a sticky mass of the compartmentalised leathery capsule

Special features:

often used as a hedge shrub, native to China and Japan